Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco - addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.
Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
People think I'm totally crackers.
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.